Could anyone please explain as understandable as possible how could I on my Windows 8 open either single file or install (and use) entire software which is supposted to work on Linux and/or Ubuntu? I ...

I'm wondering how to use Windows VST plugins with Qtractor, as I have yet to find VST instruments such as string sections and other orchestral instruments that are native to Linux. LMMS was good for ...

I am trying to compile the kernel for the pcDuino3 using this tutorial. The only problem I am experiencing is when running make. Make just exits with the an error like:
make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error ...

What are the implications of compiling packages from source? For example, what if doing sudo apt-get upgrade upgrades a dependency of the manually-installed package? How would using a package from the ...

I have install a package call libcurl, and I have compile a C code from that package into a executable. So when I run the code, I just do .thiscode
The problem is, I want to run .thiscode in another ...

im new to ubuntu and im trying to compile: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-devel.
I'm currently in my final year of universtiy and as my dissertation/project im creating an Anti-virus application ...

I've heard that Ubuntu is an Open source project.
So, Suppose I've got Windows 8 installed at this time and I want to build the Ubuntu Operating System myself - by compiling each package, and build ...

I was trying to compile OpenTTD 1.5.0beta2 because I was addicted to it. I downloaded a patch and followed the instructions for compiling. The error is not about the game, it is about the patch. Could ...

I need to specifically install gcc 4.5.3 for a program. So I originally was following these instructions. When I got to ./configure I received the error that no acceptable c compiler found in $PATH.
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I am trying to port the build from CentOS to a Ubuntu machine running trusty in 64 bits.
Compiling under 64 bits trusty yield an issue with assembly code compilation, so I compiled using chroot of 32 ...

I am having the following issue and am not sure how to fix. I do not know what linking is but I hear it's related to the problem.
I'm trying to set up a python module:
First I call in the directory ...

This is frustrating I've followed everything from the official mysql connector c++ website. I downloaded the binaries for 64 bit, opened it with archiver. It extracted into a folder 'usr' and had an ...

I just don't understand what's wrong here, what's wrong with the drive names.
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As you can see I've labelled them with e2label command. I am only concerned with ...

Previously, i had been using the "g++ a.cpp" and "./a.out" commands in terminal to get my programs compiled and runnable, but if i save a .cpp in sublime, it won't update the a.out save, so compiling ...

I am using openMP for my lab assignments and everything worked fine few weeks ago, but now it runs only on one thread, I've read and I guess that this is due to conflict between packages. This is the ...